Very happy with how team selections have eventuated even though Elliott is being held back an extra week.Should have a full 18 playing with 4 on the bench also playing just incase there are any last minute surprises.

After making it to 1350 with one short last week, I'm hoping I can get above 1400 this week and maybe even push 1450.

I was counting on Bugg or McKenzie getting a call-up. Bugg was a regular last year and has been in the emergencies for the last two weeks. McKenzie played his first game in the reserves last weekend returning from an injury, I thought he'd be a shot with GC suffering a thrashing.

If it had been Lemmens suspended then he'd have gone but I didn't feel that I could drop Thompson because he is a guy who (when fit and not suspended) gets a game every week.

I've got a lot of fringe defenders and a few injuries which is exposing my unbalanced list. It's not really a situation I've found myself in so it's a new challenge to work through. I'm probably carrying one too many defender prospects. I might have to dump McKenna who looks like he will be starved of opportunity this season.

Yeah, that'll happen if you sign guys on the night of FA's if they're on the waiver list for the week - they come off waivers/waiver requests are processed roughly around 12am Thursday. Have fixed your waiver placing on UF. Its an easy fix, so just sign players when you want to - most people that pick up players on waivers typically don't sign them on UF until Thursday anyway, so I usually have to adjust the UF waiver order weekly anyway.

You_Shall_Be_Smoten:

Unfortunately I'll be playing one short, maybe even two short.

Disappointing. Ah well, our match committee had already decided to rest Florent against your more experienced players, so we'll stick to it. Hoping for a much improved showing this week with Bernard back from suspension and Fiorini, Kerridge + possibly Guthrie to play their first games for the season.

Yep, that is correct. It mirrors how waivers work in most comps, but the players are on waivers for a week rather than 3 days - so for example in the NHL League I'm in it wouldn't be unusual, particularly if you're the person who dropped a player and wanted him back, to sit online around the time waivers are processed (7.30-8pm) and grab them the second they pass waivers (assuming they do).

This essentially replicates that process, where if nobody puts in a waiver claim for a player, they're available as a FA on the same night.

Given in the current era of FF, the drafting of the group is so much better overall, which can leave FA options pretty slim outside of Week 1, it would be unreasonable to hold the waiver group out an extra week - particularly when some weeks there can be 15 or so guys on waivers.

Yep, that is correct. It mirrors how waivers work in most comps, but the players are on waivers for a week rather than 3 days - so for example in the NHL League I'm in it wouldn't be unusual, particularly if you're the person who dropped a player and wanted him back, to sit online around the time waivers are processed (7.30-8pm) and grab them the second they pass waivers (assuming they do).

This essentially replicates that process, where if nobody puts in a waiver claim for a player, they're available as a FA on the same night.

Given in the current era of FF, the drafting of the group is so much better overall, which can leave FA options pretty slim outside of Week 1, it would be unreasonable to hold the waiver group out an extra week - particularly when some weeks there can be 15 or so guys on waivers.

I've learnt something today.

Just to clarify, I can nominate a waiver player (ie. restricted free agent) as a free agent selection, and if no one takes him as a waiver, I could pick him up as a free agent?

Yep, you can nominate any player on the waiver list as a waiver claim OR a FA claim each week. Which is why fogdog specifically says the following in the Official Foggy Rules posted on the FA page (this was also originally posted in this thread)

fogdog:

If you do not specify a waiver request I will assume it is just a normal free agent request.

So for example if Allblack is super keen on Ryan Schoenmakers but doesn't think he is worth his #1 waiver spot, he can nominate him as a FA instead. Alternatively, given you dropped Claye Beams this week, you could decide you want him back - you can't nominate him as a waiver given you dropped him, but you can nominate him as a FA and hope he gets back to you.